May 26
2010
I ran into a problem recently. I wanted to have links to images be “lightboxed,” but I also wanted to blog in Markdown and not have to write out link tags with “rel” attributes for every image link. There are several existing plugins for WordPress that will do this automatically, but I’ve been sticking with the jQuery Lightbox plugin, which handles WordPress galleries in this manner, but requires the “rel=lightbox” attribute to handle single image links.
I’m not a big fan of directly modifying plugins, primarily because it means that my changes will be scrapped if I ever automatically update the plugin…
May 25
2010
I did some massive Spring cleaning over the weekend, and found a lot of “treasures” that, after having been momentarily cherished, are on their way to the dump. A pile of Dead Kennedy’s and TCHC cassettes from High School that had been severely devastated by an extended stay in the garage, original vinyl pressings from some of my old bands, Phreak boxes, and more defunct electronics than I could possibly E-bay. Amongst all of it, though, I found a CD of work from my Interactive Multimedia degree at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design…
May 25
2010
I’ve taken a little time to improve the script I’d posted previously. It saves bookmarks you add to Delicious as webloc (Safari bookmark) files on your local hard drive, optionally with thumbnails and OpenMeta tags.
First, it adds Spotlight search abilities to your Delicious bookmarks, and, if you use OpenMeta tags, it integrates a tag-based search into any OpenMeta application. The second half of that is, in my case, I bookmark in different ways for different purposes, and it’s nice to have everything integrate into a full search in the end. For me, that search is primarily tag-based, thus the OpenMeta tagging…
May 16
2010
I just read a blog post by James Scariati regarding a method to target every version of IE from a single stylesheet. The idea was to add a wrapper div with a specific class using conditional comments, allowing you to target IE6 using CSS specificity rather than separate stylesheets. The commenters took it a bit further, and I decided to test out a slight permutation.
Using the double comment trick (as shown below) to filter IE, you can add a series of statements that put a class on the body tag for the page (without resorting to javascript or browser sniffing)…
May 11
2010
There are quite a few things I love when it comes to my Mac. I love Spotlight. I love OpenMeta tagging. I love Evernote. I love being able to collect information from any source, and find anything I’ve saved, anywhere, no matter what program I used to create it. I especially love programs that allow me to accomplish that.
Unfortunately, one of my favorite apps right now, Delibar, doesn’t integrate with Spotlight or OpenMeta, despite the fact that it would be relatively easy to do. Delibar is an excellent (and sexy) menubar application for creating and searching Delicious (and Pinboard) bookmarks…
May 08
2010
I’ve been using Things for task management lately, mostly because it has a decent iPad app. I really do love my iPad… however, I often use TaskPaper from Hog Bay Software for weekend to-do lists and for tracking bugs and fixes on my various freetime projects. I sometimes edit my TaskPaper files (which are just plain text) in TextMate and use some Ruby scripts adapted from the GTDAlt bundle to do some fun things, but I really like the interface you get when you actually use TaskPaper…
May 07
2010
I’ve seen a few people around the ‘net sharing their TextExpander snippets, so I thought I’d join in. Not familiar with TextExpander? It’s a Mac utility that expands short snippets into full text you’ve defined. There are quite a few programs that do text expansion (see Typinator), but TextExpander currently holds my heart because of its extra features such as shell scripting, completion suggestion and a new Fill dialog for variable input.
Most of my snippets are specific only to me, such as email signoffs and abbreviations for companies I work for…